[excerpt] The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price

This is an excerpt from “The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price”, a documentary which traces the eponymous Arkansas native’s life and the culture in which she lived, beginning with her birth in Little Rock in 1887. Welcomed into an extraordinarily gifted family, which moved in the circles of the social set historian Willard Gatewood referred to as “Aristocrats of Color,” Florence grew up in what was, for a time, a congenial environment. Unfortunately, however, Jim Crow laws eventually took hold of Little Rock and much of the South, creating a sort of an American apartheid system that eventually drove Florence Price and many talented people of color to leave it. Florence later settled north, in Chicago during the 1920s. Already well acquainted with many influential individuals, Florence’s circles were greatly expanded, and she came into contact with some of the most prominent African Americans in U.S. history.
The documentary was supported in part by grants from the Arkansas Humanities Council, the Department of Arkansas Heritage, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Arkansas. Filmmaker James Greeson is a professor of music at the University of Arkansas and composer of more than 15 documentary film scores.

[@lexeiy1730]

Thank you. Learning about Florence B. Price has been interesting & insightful 👍🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💙🙏🏿

[@celebratemayaproject6682]

Arkansas' Celebrate! Maya Project is so grateful for this documentary, honoring yet another woman of greatness with Arkansas roots.

[@deboraha.tucker8022]

A wonderful documentary. Thank you for shedding more light on this remarkable woman's music and achievements.

[@donnaaskew]

Thank you for posting this. What a revelation.

[@brendagraham1540]

This is an amazing story and wonderful music. Thanks for posting!

[@mgnfcntdx]

Watching on Christmas Day. So moved.

[@notmyworld44]

Er-Gene, I remember you with great fondness. You sound wonderful here. (I performed with Er-Gene for several years in various Arkansas orchestras.)

[@jamesravenell3793]

Mastro Florence B. Price. This is very beautiful acknowledgement. This is the music 🎵🎶🎶 I heard in American movies as a child. I am a black American born 1962 and I played classical guitar for about 30 years, studied in the Country Sweden. I finally realized that Florence Price music put an everlasting pattern in my life. My thanks and acknowledgement reaches out to Florence Beatrice Price, William G. Still and Joseph Bolonge a.k.a. St George De Chevalier...

[@dalemcnamee2427]

Today's issue of The Imaginative Conservative had an article on 5 "must listen to" classical albums and Florence Price was mentioned and I came via a link in the article.

[@linafruzzetti9959]

Amazing information thank you for sharing,

[@whocares_bear]

The piece at the beggining sort of reminds me of Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile.

[@briansammond7801]

Nice documentary. My only nitpick would be to ask why the thumbnail is not of Florence herself.

[@Nogah100]

How come I never met the name of this genius?

[@DjWrightLicsw]

Thank you!🙏🏿🌹❤️😷😇🥰🥰

[@amcarlnielsen]

How do I gain access to the entire documentary? I'm so interested!

[@janetgreeson8818]

Or you can go t0 the film's distributor, the U of Arkansas Press: www.uapress.com/product/the-caged-bird/

[@A1DayOn3]

lmao good job Also this assignment is weird

[@itsssmaiahhh3248]

Right, I hate it here.